All You Need Is Love (Songs)
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nenar has asked me to make a couple of mixes for her wedding in September! I love making mixes, and I'm honored to be asked to do one for such an important occasion. However, I started playing around with it last night, and I'm beginning to worry that I don't have the world's most wedding-appropriate music collection.
For example, some things I have discovered:
1. Just because I happen to think that Half-Gifts is the most romantic song ever does not mean that it, nor any song that contains the lyric, "This relationship cannot sustain itself," is appropriate for a wedding.
2. Neither is Beast of Burden, you weirdo.
3. The Cher version of Walking in Memphis is probably NOT sexy and romantic to anyone who wasn't a huge fan of The X-Files, and a big Mulder/Scully 'shipper to boot.
4. Has The Flamingos' I Only Have Eyes For You ever been anything other than creepy? Is it bad that I still want to use it?
5. At Last is not about dead people. This makes it more appropriate for use, not less.
6. I can totally get away with including Temptation, but yes, I will be the only one giggling to myself and picturing Joe's dork!dance.
And the big one:
7. MY MUSIC MAY BE GOOD, BUT YOU CAN'T DANCE TO IT.
So I need your help with that. What are some good wedding songs--that you can dance to? If you can YSI or sendspace or megaupload them, that would be great, but if not, even just names would be helpful. I want this mix to be good. ('Cause poornenar--if she's reading this, she's probably really nervous now.)
Tangentially: if anyone has Kate Bush's Aerial that they want to upload for me, that'd be totally awesome. In exchange I have...well, a lot of music totally inappropriate for weddings. *guilty grin*
ETA: DAMN YOU,spazatron! Now I can't stop listening to Wuthering Heights! I want to put it on nenar's mix! The whole wedding party can do THE DANCE.
This is in no way related to the above.
nenar has asked me to make a couple of mixes for her wedding in September! I love making mixes, and I'm honored to be asked to do one for such an important occasion. However, I started playing around with it last night, and I'm beginning to worry that I don't have the world's most wedding-appropriate music collection.For example, some things I have discovered:
1. Just because I happen to think that Half-Gifts is the most romantic song ever does not mean that it, nor any song that contains the lyric, "This relationship cannot sustain itself," is appropriate for a wedding.
2. Neither is Beast of Burden, you weirdo.
3. The Cher version of Walking in Memphis is probably NOT sexy and romantic to anyone who wasn't a huge fan of The X-Files, and a big Mulder/Scully 'shipper to boot.
4. Has The Flamingos' I Only Have Eyes For You ever been anything other than creepy? Is it bad that I still want to use it?
5. At Last is not about dead people. This makes it more appropriate for use, not less.
6. I can totally get away with including Temptation, but yes, I will be the only one giggling to myself and picturing Joe's dork!dance.
And the big one:
7. MY MUSIC MAY BE GOOD, BUT YOU CAN'T DANCE TO IT.
So I need your help with that. What are some good wedding songs--that you can dance to? If you can YSI or sendspace or megaupload them, that would be great, but if not, even just names would be helpful. I want this mix to be good. ('Cause poor
nenar--if she's reading this, she's probably really nervous now.)Tangentially: if anyone has Kate Bush's Aerial that they want to upload for me, that'd be totally awesome. In exchange I have...well, a lot of music totally inappropriate for weddings. *guilty grin*
ETA: DAMN YOU,
spazatron! Now I can't stop listening to Wuthering Heights! I want to put it on nenar's mix! The whole wedding party can do THE DANCE.This is in no way related to the above.
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Date: 2006-03-06 01:56 pm (UTC)Nikka Costa's Happy In The Morning (http://www.sendspace.com/file/3xxefg) is fun, though I'm not sure if the lyrics "You take all my naughty thoughts and they get put to use instead" are entirely appropriate for a wedding, but you never know ;)
The Waif's Love Serenade (http://www.sendspace.com/file/of5030) is folksy but very sweet (lyrics "Another day comes, another day goes, but I'm still sittin' on top of the world, just thinking about you. I wouldn't say it if it wasn't true, but honey I'm in love with you...")
Royal Crown Revue are great if you're into swing, so here's Trapped in a Web of Love (http://www.sendspace.com/file/1kjkbm). (Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Atomic Fireballs and The Squirrel Nut Zippers are all along similar lines, though this seemed the most appropriate track from all of them.)
And for sheer glam, here's The Darkness' I Believe in a Thing Called Love (http://www.sendspace.com/file/m6qv44)